Example sentences of "it [adv] [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A goal had to come , and it duly arrived in a moment of magic after 33 minutes . |
| 2 | Looking back to the last war , I can clearly remember arriving at Abbeydale Council School in Sheffield to find it badly damaged by a bomb , having to transfer temporarily to Lowfields and Ann 's Road Schools and then to ’ home service ’ , which was simply a teacher in charge of a dozen or so kids in somebody 's front room . |
| 3 | It certainly makes it quite clear that rape is about violence , power and control , and not a sexual act , but in doing so , it arguably indulges in a voyeurism equally sadistic . |
| 4 | His feet continued to pattern Ab-u-dah Ab-u-dah on the pavement as it slowly curved towards a junction with a similar , possibly even shabbier street , a terrace without any trees . |
| 5 | Instead it slowly froze in a magma chamber into a mush of coarse crystals . |
| 6 | It eventually collided with a tree on the Lakes Estate in Milton Keynes after a high speed police chase over two miles . |
| 7 | As it approached the boundary of the hole , it slowed down , until it eventually came to a halt ! |
| 8 | ‘ After a cross-country pursuit it eventually landed in a tree and I had to organise a rescue . |
| 9 | It only allows for a diet less generous as regards variety than that supplied to able-bodied paupers in workhouses . |
| 10 | It only occurs as a result of the incorporation of these societies into capitalist systems . |
| 11 | I thought she was going to hit me : her hand which was already formed in a fist , went up — but she used it only to swipe at a cat scuttling from under a bush towards the door . |
| 12 | She needed a reminder of this trip even if it only served as a warning . |
| 13 | But the caveat that was applied to affection applies even more strongly to status : it only acts as a constraint in settings where criminal activity is generally unfavourably evaluated . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , with repeated French insinuations that they had neither the means nor the intention of reconquering Vietnam , it obviously came as a shock to the US to discover that this was exactly what France seemed to have in mind . |
| 15 | The sword must have noticed him , too , because it suddenly spoke in a voice like a claw being scraped across glass . |
| 16 | This last might seem to be an asset if you are trying to lose weight , but in actual fact it merely acts as a mask to the body 's natural craving for food . |
| 17 | ‘ I suppose so , but it just seemed like a bit of harmless fun — and you know , Irish , you 're beautiful when you 're angry . ’ |
| 18 | It 's the typically cool thing , but it just seemed like a road to nowhere . |
| 19 | And er I went with my dad and got into the cage which takes you down to the pit bottom and er er er immediately the cage left the surface it just dropped like a stone and I myself was frightened that the bottom of the cage collapsed completely . |
| 20 | And yet , it just clicked after a while that she is , yes I do n't know , we became the best of friends . |
| 21 | He 's never been particularly happy about being in the group and it just came to a head . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ It just seems like a waste . |
| 23 | And there is a car with a blue light on the top of it just going through a gate in the fence . |
| 24 | It just means like a person could |
| 25 | ‘ It just looks like a scrap of old cloth or parchment or something , ’ said Tina . |
| 26 | It looks very convincing I must say , it just looks like a farmer |
| 27 | like if anybody else saw it it just looks like a piece of dirt . |
| 28 | Others find it best to work in a revision group . |
| 29 | It normally means in a statute " intentionally or recklessly " . |
| 30 | M&A work is different to many other more traditional types of work in that it normally concludes in a completion meeting . |